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Tehran University students demonstrate to protest regime’s suppressive measures
5/25/2009 7:38:55 PM
The Tehran University students, while chanting 'Death to Dictator' gathered in the University and protested against the suppressive measures of the Iranian regime on Sunday. The gathering started at 11.30 a.m. in front of the Technical College of the University and lasted for several hours. The students sang the anthem 'The old school friend' and asked for all students to be united in confronting the suppressive measures of the regime against students. The students expressed their anger and disgust of the Presidential elections’ show.
Torture and inhuman condition in Esfahan prisons The National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement on May 22nd: A prisoner, identified as Mr. Ahmad Alizadeh, 50, died as a result of torture and lack of treatment in ward 3 of Esfahan’s Central prison on May 21 late in the evening, according to sources inside Iran. His death came only after a month he was arrested. He was subjected to brutal torture despite his ailment by suppressive agents, Nasser Saidi-Far, deputy prison officer; Karami, new ward manager and the Revolutionary Guard Assadi, prison guard officer.He was refused medical attention and repeated appeals by other prisoners to take him to hospital were ignored. The defenceless prisoner finally died of his injuries before the eyes of other prisoners. On May 18, two young prisoners, Hamid Rahmani, 32, and Hamid Jodaki, 30, committed suicide in their solitary confinement in Assad Abad hard labour camp affiliated to Central prison of Esfahan. They were subjected to intense pressures and tortures which led them to take their own lives. On May 10, another prisoner by the name of Babak Faroukhi was killed in the same camp as a result of beatings by the prison guards. In addition to hard labour in excruciating conditions, prisoners are under constant psychological and physical pressures. Some of the prison guards and the Revolutionary Guards involved in torture and persecution of prisoners are Asghar Kianpour, Daryoush Abdullahi and Asghar Montazeran. The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations to take necessary measures to save the lives of the defenceless prisoners in Iran. It also calls on the UN Secretary General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to appoint an international fact finding mission to investigate the appalling state of prisons in Iran and reports about tortures used in those prisons.
Students of Tabriz outraged against Khatami for insulting Azeri minority
The students of Tabriz University, while chanting 'death to fascist' turned a presidential election campaign of Mirhosseoin Moussavi at Tabriz City Hall into a protest against the clerical regime. According to reports, after showing a film of Mohammad Khatami, regime’s former president, in a private session in which Khatami insulted the Azeri minority, the situation in Tabriz has become turbulent; the students became exasperated and chanted slogans against Khatami. Later on, the regime’s guards attacked the protesting students which led to the injury of 10.
In other news the students of Zanjan University, chanting 'death to dictator, death to fascist”, and “death to terrorist' and 'Outcry of all Iranians, freedom, freedom' interrupted the speech of Mirhossein Moussavi, former Iranian regime’s Prime Minister on Tuesday.The students questioned Moussawi regarding the massacre of political prisoners in 1988 and shouted 'Where were you in 1988 and how many people did you execute?'The students carried placards about massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 that read 'Khavaran (cemetery is still bloody' and' Moussavi, you will be tried by the people’s tribunal'. They attacked him while he was leaving the session. The student of Qazvin University, while shouting '88, 88' asked Moussavi to answer explicitly their questions about the 1988 massacre of the political prisoners. The students carried placards saying ' MirHossein, 88, 88' and 'Free the students'.Also, the students of the Science and Technology University in Tehran staged a gathering for the second consecutive day to protest suppressive measures of the clerical regime against students.While chanting 'Death to Dictator' and' Political prisoner must be released', the students of Sistan and Baluchistan University disrupted the election campaign session held by Reza Khatami for presidential elections.
A prisoner hanged in Dezful
A male prisoner has been hanged in Iran’s south western city of Dezful, state-run daily Kayhan reported on Tuesday. The report identified the man sent to the gallows as Ahmad A., without giving information on when the execution had taken place.
On Sunday, the state-run daily Etemad reported that the regime’s henchmen hanged three prisoners in the central city of Esfahan. The report identified two of the victims only by their first name Mahmoud and Alireza.The hangings surpassed 185, the number of people executed in Iran since the beginning of 2009, indicating a 70 percent rise compared to the same period last year. Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world. It also ranks first in hanging juveniles.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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Two prisoners hanged in Shiraz
The Iranian regime hanged two men, 29 and 36, in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Saturday without identifying them or specifying a date. On Thursday other state-run media also reported that nine prisoners were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and in southern city of Kerman. Among them was a 30-year-old woman who was hanged after two years of imprisonment.Iranian regime does not publish official figures on executions. The number of executions since the beginning of 2009 has reached 170.Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world.In a statement on Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran called on all international human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn the deplorable human rights situation in Iran and adopt immediate and binding measures to stop suppressive policies of the clerical regime.
Hundreds of students protested in Shiraz to free detained students
Hundreds of Shiraz University students chanting 'death to dictator' turned the speech session of, former Iranian regime’s Prime Minister, Mir Hossein Moussavi into a protest. According to reports, the students also carried pictures of the arrested students and shouted: 'Jailed students must be released'. The students also carried placards saying: 'Moussavi; answer to our questions explicitly'
503 European MPs wrote to Obama on new Iran policy; call for removal of PMOI from US blacklist
At a press conference on Thursday in the House of Commons, British lawmakers announced that over 180 British MPs and Peers have written to President Barack Obama urging the US to remove the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.The British lawmakers were part of 503 European Parliamentarians who proposed the initiative to the US, calling for a new Iran policy, said the statement published by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom.
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A man and a woman hanged in Qazvin
Iranian regime’s henchmen have hanged a woman, 30, and a man in the northern city of Qazvin, the state-run daily IRAN reported on Thursday.The woman only identified by her first name as Azita, and the man, Mohammad, were hanged in prison on Wednesday, the report said.On May 9, Hassan Qashqavi, spokesman for the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry, responded to widespread international protests against the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and the increasing trend of arbitrary executions, specifically the execution of minors. He said: “We have serious differences with the West over democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. … We even have very serious problems over an issue like execution. … This year, Amnesty International has said that the total number of the dead is 3,000. … These are serious human rights discussions.”In a statement the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said on Monday: 'The Iranian regime’s explicit and unveiled support for systematic and cruel human rights violations makes more urgent the imperative of referring Iran’s human rights violations dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures against the religious fascism ruling Iran.'
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US-born reporter Roxana Saberi flew into Vienna from Tehran on Friday, only days after her release from an Iranian prison where she had been jailed on allegations of spying for the United States. Saberi, who was accompanied by her family, told Associated France Press she planned to spend several days in the city as "Vienna is calm and relaxing." Saberi was released on Monday from Tehran's Evin prison after her original eight-year jail term on espionage charges was reduced to a suspended two-year term by an appeal court. A dual US-Iranian national, Saberi had been in Iran for six years and had reported for US-based National Public Radio (NPR), the BBC and other foreign media groups. She was first arrested in January of this year on charges of buying alcohol which is illegal in the Islamic republic. However, she was later accused of "cooperating with a hostile state," a charge which carries a prison term of one to 10 years under article 508 of the Iranian penal code.
503 European MPs write to President Obama urging new policy on Iran including removal of PMOI from US terror list180 British MPs: Delay in de-listing PMOI could lead to humanitariancatastrophe in Camp Ashraf
At a press conference on Thursday in the House of Commons it was announced that over 180 crossparty MPs and Peers have written to President Barack Obama urging the US to remove the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), from the list of foreign terrorist organisations.Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom,announced that the British lawmakers were part of 503 European Parliamentarians who proposed the initiative to the US, calling for a new Iran policy.The British and European lawmakers called for the immediate removal of the PMOI from the US terror list since the Iranian regime still uses the ban as an excuse to try and have 3,500 PMOI members, who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq as ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention, ’expelled or extradited to Iran or displaced inside Iraq, which could lead to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.’While warning of an impending humanitarian catastrophe for Ashraf residents, the cross-party lawmakers urged Iraq to immediately implement the items of the 24 April 2009 European Parliament resolution with regards to Ashraf and further called on the UN to monitor Iraqi compliance with this resolution.They reiterated that if Iraq did not implement the items of the EP resolution, calling for recognition of Ashraf residents as ’protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the only alternative left would be for the US to take over protection of Ashraf under UN monitors, not least since as of 2003 the US had vowed to guarantee the protection of Ashraf residents in return for a voluntary consolidation of weapons.In their new initiative, 503 British and European Parliamentarians underscored the need for a coherent Trans-Atlantic policy to deal with the growing threat of the regime’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons and its terrorist and fundamentalist meddling and warmongering in the region.In their letter to the US President, the MPs said: ’Our experience has shown that the Iran crisis cannot be resolved without an Iranian solution and without relying on its main opposition movement. Sadly your predecessors and the EU included the main Iranian opposition group in the list of terrorist groups. In Europe, this unjust decision was annulled by seven decisive European court rulings, and the EU Council finally lifted the ban in January.’They added: ’The fundamentalist dictatorship ruling Iran has so far executed more than 120,000 PMOI members. Through its lobby in the West and by spending hundreds of millions of dollars, it tries to demonize these people and attaches false charges to them. 2,000 Members of Parliaments from many European states and various parliamentary committees have, in their independent assessments, reached the conclusion that the PMOI is a democratic force with a large social base.’The 503 British and European MPs criticised the previous attitude of the West and stated: ’The regime fears only two prospects - foreign military intervention, which at this point is not under consideration, and the PMOI. Until now, we have prevented ourselves from being able to utilize this valuable leverage and have, as a consequence, made ourselves weaker in the face of the mullahs’ regime. To show resilience and strength in our dealings with Tehran and to show our good will towards the Iranian people, we must support the main opposition PMOI rather than treat them as enemies at the behest of the mullahs.’Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President elect of the resistance coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a video message from Paris to the conference. ’This letter on its own is a clear rejection of the policy of appeasement with its main feature being the unjust labeling of the PMOI’, she said.Speakers at the conference included: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Andrew MacKinlay MP, David Drew MP, Joe Benton MP, Roger Williams MP, David Amess MP, Lord Clarke of Hampstead, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, Lord Dholakia, Lord Cotter, Brian Binley MP, and Mehrafrouz Peikarnegar from the NCRI.The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom14 May 2009
Two prisoners hanged in Shiraz
The Iranian regime hanged two men, 29 and 36, in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Saturday without identifying them or specifying a date. On Thursday other state-run media also reported that nine prisoners were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and in southern city of Kerman. Among them was a 30-year-old woman who was hanged after two years of imprisonment.Iranian regime does not publish official figures on executions. The number of executions since the beginning of 2009 has reached 170.Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world.In a statement on Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran called on all international human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn the deplorable human rights situation in Iran and adopt immediate and binding measures to stop suppressive policies of the clerical regime.
Hundreds of students protested in Shiraz to free detained students
Hundreds of Shiraz University students chanting 'death to dictator' turned the speech session of, former Iranian regime’s Prime Minister, Mir Hossein Moussavi into a protest. According to reports, the students also carried pictures of the arrested students and shouted: 'Jailed students must be released'. The students also carried placards saying: 'Moussavi; answer to our questions explicitly'
503 European MPs wrote to Obama on new Iran policy; call for removal of PMOI from US blacklist
At a press conference on Thursday in the House of Commons, British lawmakers announced that over 180 British MPs and Peers have written to President Barack Obama urging the US to remove the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.The British lawmakers were part of 503 European Parliamentarians who proposed the initiative to the US, calling for a new Iran policy, said the statement published by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom.
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A man and a woman hanged in Qazvin
Iranian regime’s henchmen have hanged a woman, 30, and a man in the northern city of Qazvin, the state-run daily IRAN reported on Thursday.The woman only identified by her first name as Azita, and the man, Mohammad, were hanged in prison on Wednesday, the report said.On May 9, Hassan Qashqavi, spokesman for the Iranian regime’s Foreign Ministry, responded to widespread international protests against the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran and the increasing trend of arbitrary executions, specifically the execution of minors. He said: “We have serious differences with the West over democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. … We even have very serious problems over an issue like execution. … This year, Amnesty International has said that the total number of the dead is 3,000. … These are serious human rights discussions.”In a statement the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said on Monday: 'The Iranian regime’s explicit and unveiled support for systematic and cruel human rights violations makes more urgent the imperative of referring Iran’s human rights violations dossier to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures against the religious fascism ruling Iran.'
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US-born reporter Roxana Saberi flew into Vienna from Tehran on Friday, only days after her release from an Iranian prison where she had been jailed on allegations of spying for the United States. Saberi, who was accompanied by her family, told Associated France Press she planned to spend several days in the city as "Vienna is calm and relaxing." Saberi was released on Monday from Tehran's Evin prison after her original eight-year jail term on espionage charges was reduced to a suspended two-year term by an appeal court. A dual US-Iranian national, Saberi had been in Iran for six years and had reported for US-based National Public Radio (NPR), the BBC and other foreign media groups. She was first arrested in January of this year on charges of buying alcohol which is illegal in the Islamic republic. However, she was later accused of "cooperating with a hostile state," a charge which carries a prison term of one to 10 years under article 508 of the Iranian penal code.
503 European MPs write to President Obama urging new policy on Iran including removal of PMOI from US terror list180 British MPs: Delay in de-listing PMOI could lead to humanitariancatastrophe in Camp Ashraf
At a press conference on Thursday in the House of Commons it was announced that over 180 crossparty MPs and Peers have written to President Barack Obama urging the US to remove the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), from the list of foreign terrorist organisations.Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom,announced that the British lawmakers were part of 503 European Parliamentarians who proposed the initiative to the US, calling for a new Iran policy.The British and European lawmakers called for the immediate removal of the PMOI from the US terror list since the Iranian regime still uses the ban as an excuse to try and have 3,500 PMOI members, who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq as ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention, ’expelled or extradited to Iran or displaced inside Iraq, which could lead to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.’While warning of an impending humanitarian catastrophe for Ashraf residents, the cross-party lawmakers urged Iraq to immediately implement the items of the 24 April 2009 European Parliament resolution with regards to Ashraf and further called on the UN to monitor Iraqi compliance with this resolution.They reiterated that if Iraq did not implement the items of the EP resolution, calling for recognition of Ashraf residents as ’protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention, the only alternative left would be for the US to take over protection of Ashraf under UN monitors, not least since as of 2003 the US had vowed to guarantee the protection of Ashraf residents in return for a voluntary consolidation of weapons.In their new initiative, 503 British and European Parliamentarians underscored the need for a coherent Trans-Atlantic policy to deal with the growing threat of the regime’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons and its terrorist and fundamentalist meddling and warmongering in the region.In their letter to the US President, the MPs said: ’Our experience has shown that the Iran crisis cannot be resolved without an Iranian solution and without relying on its main opposition movement. Sadly your predecessors and the EU included the main Iranian opposition group in the list of terrorist groups. In Europe, this unjust decision was annulled by seven decisive European court rulings, and the EU Council finally lifted the ban in January.’They added: ’The fundamentalist dictatorship ruling Iran has so far executed more than 120,000 PMOI members. Through its lobby in the West and by spending hundreds of millions of dollars, it tries to demonize these people and attaches false charges to them. 2,000 Members of Parliaments from many European states and various parliamentary committees have, in their independent assessments, reached the conclusion that the PMOI is a democratic force with a large social base.’The 503 British and European MPs criticised the previous attitude of the West and stated: ’The regime fears only two prospects - foreign military intervention, which at this point is not under consideration, and the PMOI. Until now, we have prevented ourselves from being able to utilize this valuable leverage and have, as a consequence, made ourselves weaker in the face of the mullahs’ regime. To show resilience and strength in our dealings with Tehran and to show our good will towards the Iranian people, we must support the main opposition PMOI rather than treat them as enemies at the behest of the mullahs.’Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President elect of the resistance coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a video message from Paris to the conference. ’This letter on its own is a clear rejection of the policy of appeasement with its main feature being the unjust labeling of the PMOI’, she said.Speakers at the conference included: Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Andrew MacKinlay MP, David Drew MP, Joe Benton MP, Roger Williams MP, David Amess MP, Lord Clarke of Hampstead, Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, Lord Dholakia, Lord Cotter, Brian Binley MP, and Mehrafrouz Peikarnegar from the NCRI.The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom14 May 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
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White House praises release of journalist in Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising the release of American journalist Roxana Saberi from a jail in Iran. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the administration continues to stress that Saberi was wrongly accused, "but we welcome this humanitarian gesture." The 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen was released Monday after four months in jail. An Iranian appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Gibbs said Obama looks forward to welcoming Saberi back to the United States.
Iraqi Independent writers and scholars ask for lifting Ashraf siege
The founder board of ‘The Association of Iraqi Independent Writers and Scholars’, in a statement, asked the Iraqi government to implement the European Parliament resolution in defence of the legal rights of Ashraf residents.The statement reads: “Emphasizing the respect for refugees and guests and their protection, the inhuman treatment toward the Iranian Resistance members who have taken refuge in Iraq is the violation of Arabic and Islamic principles and has discouraged the international community. This prompted the European Parliament to ask the Iraqi government to lift Ashraf siege; the Ashraf residents are internationally protected according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. We, therefore, call on our brothers and colleagues, the Iraqi and Arab writers and scholars, to raise their voice to condemn such treatments and to reach the Iraqi public opinion to the Iraqi government that Iraq acknowledges the international Law and asks for respect to these laws. We ask the Iraqi government to immediately lift the imposed siege on Ashraf and let the Ashraf residents choose their path freely and make their own destiny”.
Anti-government protests across Iran
According to NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), Workers from the Bus Drivers Union staged a protest gathering on Tuesday across from the Iranian regime’s office of Labour Organization in Kermanshah. They protested against layoffs and demanded continued employment in addition to receiving deferred salaries.
Two prisoners hanged in Shiraz
NCRI, 09 May 2009 - The Iranian regime hanged two men, 29 and 36, in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Saturday without identifying them or specifying a date.On Thursday other state-run media also reported that nine prisoners were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and in southern city of Kerman. Among them was a 30-year-old woman who was hanged after two years of imprisonment.Iranian regime does not publish official figures on executions. The number of executions since the beginning of 2009 has reached 170.Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world.In a statement on Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran called on all international human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn the deplorable human rights situation in Iran and adopt immediate and binding measures to stop suppressive policies of the clerical regime.
Iranian regime hangs nine, including woman
Iranian regime has hanged nine people, including a woman, state media reported on Thursday. Four of the people, including the woman, were hanged on Wednesday, the official state daily Iran wrote. Another state daily Vatan Emrooz identified the men as Hamid Mohammadi, Safarali Nassiri, and Hosseinali Robatseyli and the woman as Zeynab Nazarzadeh. It said they were hanged in Tehran’s Evin Prison.All four were accused of murder.Five other people were hanged in a prison in Kerman, south-east Iran, according to the Fars news agency, which is operated by the Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader. It did not give their full names and it was not clear when they were hanged.The report described the five as drug traffickers.The semi-official daily Jomhuri Eslami wrote on Wednesday that another man, identified as Abdolbaret Noorzehi, was hanged in a prison in the town of Khash , south-east Iran. It said he was accused of murder but did not say when he was hanged.Iran’s judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi confirmed on 5 May that a man had been stoned to death for adultery one month earlier in the northern city of Rasht. In January he confirmed that two men had been stoned to death for adultery last December in Mashhad while a third man managed to struggle out of the hole he had been buried in. Delara Darabi, 23, a talented Iranian artist who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and whose sentencing had been condemned by international human rights organizations, was hanged on 1 May in Rasht. She denied carrying out the murder of which she was accused.Under increasing international pressure, the Iranian regime keeps children on death row in Juvenile Prison until they turn 18.
Iran: Appeal to stop imminent execution of two young men
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in a statement on May 5th that two young prisoners are going to be hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Wednesday, May 6, for crimes alleged to have been committed when they were only 16, according to their lawyers. The prisoners are identified as Amir Khaleqi and Safar Angooti. The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn this barbaric crime and to adopt immediate binding measures to save the lives of the youths.
White House praises release of journalist in Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising the release of American journalist Roxana Saberi from a jail in Iran. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the administration continues to stress that Saberi was wrongly accused, "but we welcome this humanitarian gesture." The 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen was released Monday after four months in jail. An Iranian appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence on charges of spying for the U.S. Gibbs said Obama looks forward to welcoming Saberi back to the United States.
Iraqi Independent writers and scholars ask for lifting Ashraf siege
The founder board of ‘The Association of Iraqi Independent Writers and Scholars’, in a statement, asked the Iraqi government to implement the European Parliament resolution in defence of the legal rights of Ashraf residents.The statement reads: “Emphasizing the respect for refugees and guests and their protection, the inhuman treatment toward the Iranian Resistance members who have taken refuge in Iraq is the violation of Arabic and Islamic principles and has discouraged the international community. This prompted the European Parliament to ask the Iraqi government to lift Ashraf siege; the Ashraf residents are internationally protected according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. We, therefore, call on our brothers and colleagues, the Iraqi and Arab writers and scholars, to raise their voice to condemn such treatments and to reach the Iraqi public opinion to the Iraqi government that Iraq acknowledges the international Law and asks for respect to these laws. We ask the Iraqi government to immediately lift the imposed siege on Ashraf and let the Ashraf residents choose their path freely and make their own destiny”.
Anti-government protests across Iran
According to NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), Workers from the Bus Drivers Union staged a protest gathering on Tuesday across from the Iranian regime’s office of Labour Organization in Kermanshah. They protested against layoffs and demanded continued employment in addition to receiving deferred salaries.
Two prisoners hanged in Shiraz
NCRI, 09 May 2009 - The Iranian regime hanged two men, 29 and 36, in a prison in the southern city of Shiraz, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Saturday without identifying them or specifying a date.On Thursday other state-run media also reported that nine prisoners were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and in southern city of Kerman. Among them was a 30-year-old woman who was hanged after two years of imprisonment.Iranian regime does not publish official figures on executions. The number of executions since the beginning of 2009 has reached 170.Iran under the mullahs currently ranks first for per capita executions in the world.In a statement on Wednesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran called on all international human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to condemn the deplorable human rights situation in Iran and adopt immediate and binding measures to stop suppressive policies of the clerical regime.
Iranian regime hangs nine, including woman
Iranian regime has hanged nine people, including a woman, state media reported on Thursday. Four of the people, including the woman, were hanged on Wednesday, the official state daily Iran wrote. Another state daily Vatan Emrooz identified the men as Hamid Mohammadi, Safarali Nassiri, and Hosseinali Robatseyli and the woman as Zeynab Nazarzadeh. It said they were hanged in Tehran’s Evin Prison.All four were accused of murder.Five other people were hanged in a prison in Kerman, south-east Iran, according to the Fars news agency, which is operated by the Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader. It did not give their full names and it was not clear when they were hanged.The report described the five as drug traffickers.The semi-official daily Jomhuri Eslami wrote on Wednesday that another man, identified as Abdolbaret Noorzehi, was hanged in a prison in the town of Khash , south-east Iran. It said he was accused of murder but did not say when he was hanged.Iran’s judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi confirmed on 5 May that a man had been stoned to death for adultery one month earlier in the northern city of Rasht. In January he confirmed that two men had been stoned to death for adultery last December in Mashhad while a third man managed to struggle out of the hole he had been buried in. Delara Darabi, 23, a talented Iranian artist who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and whose sentencing had been condemned by international human rights organizations, was hanged on 1 May in Rasht. She denied carrying out the murder of which she was accused.Under increasing international pressure, the Iranian regime keeps children on death row in Juvenile Prison until they turn 18.
Iran: Appeal to stop imminent execution of two young men
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in a statement on May 5th that two young prisoners are going to be hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Wednesday, May 6, for crimes alleged to have been committed when they were only 16, according to their lawyers. The prisoners are identified as Amir Khaleqi and Safar Angooti. The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn this barbaric crime and to adopt immediate binding measures to save the lives of the youths.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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Delara Darabi was hanged on May 1st, International Labour Day
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement on May 1st that Delara Darabi, 23, was hanged this morning, May 1, despite widespread international opposition. This has shocked all freedom loving and democratic forces around the world. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the execution of the young woman, who at the time of the crime attributed to her was only 17 as a sign of savagery, barbarism and misogyny of the medieval regime ruling Iran. She urged the international community to condemn this unprecedented and hideous crime. Mrs. Rajavi added that the world community, in particular the EU and the US, are facing a big test; continue keeping silence and inaction in face of the bloodletting religious fascism ruling Iran or standing up to responsibilities that the UN Charter, conventions and international regulations have defined for them in dealing with such regimes.
Int’l Workers Day celebration led to clashes across Iran
According to reports, while the streets around Laleh Park in Tehran were crowded with the people and the eyewitnesses said around 2,000 people gathered to mark May Day, the clerical regime blocked all of the Park entrances and surrounding streets and established an unannounced martial law and prevented any gathering of more than two people around the park. These measures were taken in fear that the May Day demonstration might evolve to a big anti-government demonstration. The State Security Force (SSF) agents brutally beat the May Day participants either men or women; the reports indicated that on Friday afternoon 20 people including a member of Workers’ Syndicate by the name of Khani were arrested and transferred to an unknown location; there are four women among the arrestees. In Kermanshah, despite severe security measures by the regime, the workers from different factories demonstrated on May Day. The workers of Polyethylene Petrochemical Company, Porcelain and Kurd Ceramic companies gathered in front of the governorate Building in Kermanshah, while carrying placards and asking for their rights.In Sanandaj, hundreds of workers marked the May Day under severe security measures.In Qasr-e-Shirin, more than 1,500 workers held a demonstration on Friday Morning and clashed with the suppressive State Security Force (SSF) agents. They carried placards saying 'the workers want their rights, we boycott sham elections.' 10 workers were arrested by the agents during the clashes.In Arak, 500 angry workers gathered in front of the governorate building and demonstrated their anger and disgust of the clerical regime by throwing stones. In this gathering the workers of Arak Industries Company, Azarab Company, Pars Wagon Company and several other companies participated too.In Qom, more than 1,000 workers from different companies demonstrated on May Day. The workers chanted against the regime’s anti-worker policies and carried banners saying “Incompetent minister should resign”.
Iranian American refugees will continue fight over contributions to opposition group
Source: American Civil Liberty Union of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, Calif., 01 May 2009 - Seven Iranian American refugees have conditionally pled guilty to providing material support to an Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The agreement enables them to appeal the ruling on the ground that their prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution, an argument that the trial judge indicated should be decided by a higher court. Their challenge focuses on the fact that the MEK does not threaten U.S. national security, in large part because the U.S. government has itself provided material support to the same group, as court documents obtained in the case revealed. The pleas yesterday by the six men and one woman were made reluctantly after an eight-year legal battle, and only on condition that the government drop over 100 other charges to which they had pleaded not guilty and allow them to pursue their argument that they should not be prosecuted for contributing to the MEK. That organization -- the main Iranian opposition group -- supports a free, non-nuclear Iran, has provided valuable information to the U.S. and has even worked to make the U.S. government’s 'surge' in Iraq a success.'It boggles the mind that that these seven refugees would be charged with providing material support for a so-called terrorist organization, when the U.S. government has supported the same organization for years,' said Ahilan Arulanantham, Director of Immigrants’ Rights and National Security of the ACLU of Southern California, which represents one of the seven defendants. 'In the interests of justice, the federal government should drop its prosecution of this case, which is based on a law that denies due process to those accused of supporting designated terrorist organizations.'The U.S. government officially designated the MEK as a terrorist organization in 1997 -- thereby criminalizing almost all assistance rendered to the group -- and has maintained that designation despite the objections of more than 228 members of Congress. Senior Clinton administration officials acknowledged at the time that the designation of the MEK was a political, 'goodwill gesture' to the so-called moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. The European Union and the United Kingdom initially followed the United States and made the same designation, but recently withdrew their designation after considering overwhelming evidence that the MEK does not threaten their national security. Under the U.S.’s anti-terrorism law, however, the seven defendants were not permitted to argue at a trial that the MEK was not a threat to American national security. Currently, the United States and Iran are among the few government entities to continue to officially classify the MEK as a terrorist group.The seven refugees, some of whom were personally subjected to incarceration, persecution and torture before fleeing Iran, raised money at the Los Angeles Airport and within Los Angeles’s Iranian community, and sent some of it to the MEK. The funds were used for a variety of humanitarian items, such as the purchase of shoes and other aid to Iranian refugees in Iraq, as well as the promotion of speech such as television time for ads about Iran and the publication of the group’s newspaper.In 2002, the seven refugees successfully challenged the legitimacy of the government’s prosecution, but the charges were later reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Evidence released in court recently showed, among other things, that the U.S. government supported a camp in Iraq where the MEK leadership currently resides, and provided consular services to the residents there.'The American people are well-aware that the U.S. government supports those who oppose the tyrannical Iranian regime,' said Nasser Shareef, President of the California Society for Democracy in Iran. He added, 'Under these circumstances, it is indeed ironic that the U.S. government has prosecuted these seven individuals for bravely supporting resistance against the Iranian regime, whose hands are stained with the blood of tens of thousands of Iranians at home as well as hundreds of innocent people outside Iran, including many Americans in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.' A sentencing hearing is presently scheduled for August where the issues of the proper designation of the MEK, the oppression and torture that some of the defendants endured in Iran, and the current working relationship between the MEK and the U.S. government (despite the continued designation) will be presented to the court.
Political prisoner supporter of PMOI was slain under torture
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said on April 27, 2009 that Mr. Mahmoud Ghassemzadeh, 48, a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), was brutally murdered under torture by the clerical regime on April 18. He was arrested at his house in Babolsar (northern Iran) on April 14 by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). He was subsequently taken to MOIS headquarters in Babol and Ghaemshahr, before being transferred to city of Sari (provincial capital of Mazandaran). Mr. Ghassemzadeh who suffered from heart and respiratory ailments, was put under torture immediately. After four days of torture, he was transferred to Sari’s Nimeh-Shaaban Hospital in critical condition on April 18 at 3 PM. Due to bureaucratic obstacles created by the MOIS agents, his treatment began with a two and half hours delay. But the doctors’ endeavors to save him were futile and he passed away at 11 PM.In order to cover up its crime, the MOIS prevented an autopsy to be conducted and the coroner declared the reason for death as “unknown.” According to eyewitnesses in the hospital and in the coroner office, signs of torture and injuries were visible on his body.The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organization to condemn this heinous crime, and to take urgent measures to save the lives of political prisoners. It calls on the UN Secretary General, the Security Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to send a fact finding mission to investigate the state of the Iranian regime’s prisons, political prisoners, torture as well as murder of political prisoners under torture.
Prisoners protested against inhuman treatment and torture at Isfahan Prison
The prisoners of Isfahan central prison protested against torture and inhuman treatment carried out in the prison by the regime’s executioners.According to received report, the sanitary condition in the prison is deplorable. Kaffashan, one of the prison’s officials has said: 'We have 100 entries into the prison per day, but we have only 600 Tooman (60 cents) budget for each prisoner; the sanitary budget of the prison has been reduced to one fifth too.'Due to tortures and overbearing condition in the prison, 30 prisoners tried to commit suicide only last year.
Teachers strike across Iran to protest grave livelihood condition
The Iranian teachers staged a nationwide strike for the second consecutive day. This strike was held in the provinces of, among others, Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Yazd, Eastern and Western Azerbaijan and Hormozgan. In different districts of Tehran, teachers refrained from going to the classes.The teachers’ strike took place in protest to the poor livelihood condition, discrimination and the anti-cultural policies of the clerical regime.The strike took place at a condition when the clerical regime tried to prevent the strikes by dispatching a big number of its security and intelligence agents to suppress the protests; nonetheless the teachers’ resistance foiled regime’s efforts.
Delara Darabi was hanged on May 1st, International Labour Day
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement on May 1st that Delara Darabi, 23, was hanged this morning, May 1, despite widespread international opposition. This has shocked all freedom loving and democratic forces around the world. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the execution of the young woman, who at the time of the crime attributed to her was only 17 as a sign of savagery, barbarism and misogyny of the medieval regime ruling Iran. She urged the international community to condemn this unprecedented and hideous crime. Mrs. Rajavi added that the world community, in particular the EU and the US, are facing a big test; continue keeping silence and inaction in face of the bloodletting religious fascism ruling Iran or standing up to responsibilities that the UN Charter, conventions and international regulations have defined for them in dealing with such regimes.
Int’l Workers Day celebration led to clashes across Iran
According to reports, while the streets around Laleh Park in Tehran were crowded with the people and the eyewitnesses said around 2,000 people gathered to mark May Day, the clerical regime blocked all of the Park entrances and surrounding streets and established an unannounced martial law and prevented any gathering of more than two people around the park. These measures were taken in fear that the May Day demonstration might evolve to a big anti-government demonstration. The State Security Force (SSF) agents brutally beat the May Day participants either men or women; the reports indicated that on Friday afternoon 20 people including a member of Workers’ Syndicate by the name of Khani were arrested and transferred to an unknown location; there are four women among the arrestees. In Kermanshah, despite severe security measures by the regime, the workers from different factories demonstrated on May Day. The workers of Polyethylene Petrochemical Company, Porcelain and Kurd Ceramic companies gathered in front of the governorate Building in Kermanshah, while carrying placards and asking for their rights.In Sanandaj, hundreds of workers marked the May Day under severe security measures.In Qasr-e-Shirin, more than 1,500 workers held a demonstration on Friday Morning and clashed with the suppressive State Security Force (SSF) agents. They carried placards saying 'the workers want their rights, we boycott sham elections.' 10 workers were arrested by the agents during the clashes.In Arak, 500 angry workers gathered in front of the governorate building and demonstrated their anger and disgust of the clerical regime by throwing stones. In this gathering the workers of Arak Industries Company, Azarab Company, Pars Wagon Company and several other companies participated too.In Qom, more than 1,000 workers from different companies demonstrated on May Day. The workers chanted against the regime’s anti-worker policies and carried banners saying “Incompetent minister should resign”.
Iranian American refugees will continue fight over contributions to opposition group
Source: American Civil Liberty Union of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, Calif., 01 May 2009 - Seven Iranian American refugees have conditionally pled guilty to providing material support to an Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The agreement enables them to appeal the ruling on the ground that their prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution, an argument that the trial judge indicated should be decided by a higher court. Their challenge focuses on the fact that the MEK does not threaten U.S. national security, in large part because the U.S. government has itself provided material support to the same group, as court documents obtained in the case revealed. The pleas yesterday by the six men and one woman were made reluctantly after an eight-year legal battle, and only on condition that the government drop over 100 other charges to which they had pleaded not guilty and allow them to pursue their argument that they should not be prosecuted for contributing to the MEK. That organization -- the main Iranian opposition group -- supports a free, non-nuclear Iran, has provided valuable information to the U.S. and has even worked to make the U.S. government’s 'surge' in Iraq a success.'It boggles the mind that that these seven refugees would be charged with providing material support for a so-called terrorist organization, when the U.S. government has supported the same organization for years,' said Ahilan Arulanantham, Director of Immigrants’ Rights and National Security of the ACLU of Southern California, which represents one of the seven defendants. 'In the interests of justice, the federal government should drop its prosecution of this case, which is based on a law that denies due process to those accused of supporting designated terrorist organizations.'The U.S. government officially designated the MEK as a terrorist organization in 1997 -- thereby criminalizing almost all assistance rendered to the group -- and has maintained that designation despite the objections of more than 228 members of Congress. Senior Clinton administration officials acknowledged at the time that the designation of the MEK was a political, 'goodwill gesture' to the so-called moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami. The European Union and the United Kingdom initially followed the United States and made the same designation, but recently withdrew their designation after considering overwhelming evidence that the MEK does not threaten their national security. Under the U.S.’s anti-terrorism law, however, the seven defendants were not permitted to argue at a trial that the MEK was not a threat to American national security. Currently, the United States and Iran are among the few government entities to continue to officially classify the MEK as a terrorist group.The seven refugees, some of whom were personally subjected to incarceration, persecution and torture before fleeing Iran, raised money at the Los Angeles Airport and within Los Angeles’s Iranian community, and sent some of it to the MEK. The funds were used for a variety of humanitarian items, such as the purchase of shoes and other aid to Iranian refugees in Iraq, as well as the promotion of speech such as television time for ads about Iran and the publication of the group’s newspaper.In 2002, the seven refugees successfully challenged the legitimacy of the government’s prosecution, but the charges were later reinstated by the U.S. Court of Appeals. Evidence released in court recently showed, among other things, that the U.S. government supported a camp in Iraq where the MEK leadership currently resides, and provided consular services to the residents there.'The American people are well-aware that the U.S. government supports those who oppose the tyrannical Iranian regime,' said Nasser Shareef, President of the California Society for Democracy in Iran. He added, 'Under these circumstances, it is indeed ironic that the U.S. government has prosecuted these seven individuals for bravely supporting resistance against the Iranian regime, whose hands are stained with the blood of tens of thousands of Iranians at home as well as hundreds of innocent people outside Iran, including many Americans in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.' A sentencing hearing is presently scheduled for August where the issues of the proper designation of the MEK, the oppression and torture that some of the defendants endured in Iran, and the current working relationship between the MEK and the U.S. government (despite the continued designation) will be presented to the court.
Political prisoner supporter of PMOI was slain under torture
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said on April 27, 2009 that Mr. Mahmoud Ghassemzadeh, 48, a supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), was brutally murdered under torture by the clerical regime on April 18. He was arrested at his house in Babolsar (northern Iran) on April 14 by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). He was subsequently taken to MOIS headquarters in Babol and Ghaemshahr, before being transferred to city of Sari (provincial capital of Mazandaran). Mr. Ghassemzadeh who suffered from heart and respiratory ailments, was put under torture immediately. After four days of torture, he was transferred to Sari’s Nimeh-Shaaban Hospital in critical condition on April 18 at 3 PM. Due to bureaucratic obstacles created by the MOIS agents, his treatment began with a two and half hours delay. But the doctors’ endeavors to save him were futile and he passed away at 11 PM.In order to cover up its crime, the MOIS prevented an autopsy to be conducted and the coroner declared the reason for death as “unknown.” According to eyewitnesses in the hospital and in the coroner office, signs of torture and injuries were visible on his body.The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organization to condemn this heinous crime, and to take urgent measures to save the lives of political prisoners. It calls on the UN Secretary General, the Security Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to send a fact finding mission to investigate the state of the Iranian regime’s prisons, political prisoners, torture as well as murder of political prisoners under torture.
Prisoners protested against inhuman treatment and torture at Isfahan Prison
The prisoners of Isfahan central prison protested against torture and inhuman treatment carried out in the prison by the regime’s executioners.According to received report, the sanitary condition in the prison is deplorable. Kaffashan, one of the prison’s officials has said: 'We have 100 entries into the prison per day, but we have only 600 Tooman (60 cents) budget for each prisoner; the sanitary budget of the prison has been reduced to one fifth too.'Due to tortures and overbearing condition in the prison, 30 prisoners tried to commit suicide only last year.
Teachers strike across Iran to protest grave livelihood condition
The Iranian teachers staged a nationwide strike for the second consecutive day. This strike was held in the provinces of, among others, Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Yazd, Eastern and Western Azerbaijan and Hormozgan. In different districts of Tehran, teachers refrained from going to the classes.The teachers’ strike took place in protest to the poor livelihood condition, discrimination and the anti-cultural policies of the clerical regime.The strike took place at a condition when the clerical regime tried to prevent the strikes by dispatching a big number of its security and intelligence agents to suppress the protests; nonetheless the teachers’ resistance foiled regime’s efforts.
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